Re: octave in bg ????

[Dirk Laurie]

Daniel Heiserer skryf:

> whenever I try to run octve in the background, octave starts sleeping
> and
> does not continue:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> shell> octave -q  test_run_1.m &
> [1] 491322
> [1]  + Suspended (tty output)        octave -q test_run_1.m
> shell> ps
>         PID TTY     TIME CMD
>      479611 ttyq17  0:00 octave-2. 
>      492557 ttyq17  0:00 ps 
>      477309 ttyq17  0:02 tcsh 
> 
> shell> uname -a
> IRIX64 caek56 6.5 04191226 IP28
> shell> octave --version
> GNU Octave, version 2.0.14 (mips-sgi-irix6.4)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

test_run_1.m doesn't do anything untoward, such as using the 'prompt'
function, I presume?

It should continue if you type 'fg', which puts it in foreground again.
(Although I seem to lose the keyboard echo, i.e. I can't see what I type
but Octave does read it and react to it.)

Octave in background, given a script input file as above, works
in 2.0.16 and in 2.1.30 under Red Hat Linux on a Pentium.  By now,
2.1.30 is pretty stable -- why not upgrade?

Dirk 



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